Events & Exhibitions

Secret Cemetery

Currently exhibiting until Saturday 14th February

An in-house exhibition that was previously exhibited in 2020. It tells the story of the archaeological excavation of a previously unknown late Saxon and early medieval cemetery in Godalming excavated in 2014 near Godalming Parish Church and is the first known cemetery associated with the church, dating 850-1200.

Godalming & Guildford in Watercolour

Tuesday 17th to Saturday 28th February

The exhibition features a series of watercolour paintings inspired by the everyday scenes, character, and energy of these Surrey towns.

Blue Sky Artists Exhibition

Thursday 5th March to Monday 23rd March

We are delighted to welcome back Blue Sky Artists, Ingrid Skoglund and Liz Calthorpe, for a display of colourful and eye-catching abstract pieces.

Resonance

23rd March to 18th April

Resonance is Flora Bell’s first solo exhibition, bringing together abstract paintings created over the past three years, including the Seasons of Becoming series. Working with fluid acrylic techniques, Bell balances control and spontaneity to create compositions that feel dynamic yet composed. Through the organic movement of paint, her works suggest landscape and seascape, earth and sky. The Seasons of Becoming series explores inner change: from intensity and uncertainty, through grounding and self-awareness, to confidence, openness and mature harmony. Together the exhibition explores these stages of change, revealing a visual language shaped by growth, intention and a search for balance.

The Rabbit Woman of Godalming - A Lecture by Julian Humphrys

Friday 27th March, 7:30pm at The Wilfred Noyce Centre, Godalming

Three hundred years ago this autumn Godalming found itself at the centre of a remarkable medical scandal when a local woman, Mary Toft, announced that she had given birth to a litter of rabbits! Needless to say, her claim would be uncovered as a hoax but not before it had taken in some of the country’s most eminent physicians. In this illustrated talk Julian Humphrys will tell us more about this extraordinary episode in our local and national history.

Surrey Artists - A lecture by Hilary Underwood

Friday 17th April, 7:30pm at The Wilfred Noyce Centre, Godalming

Did you know that the great British landscape artists, Turner and Constable, both painted in Surrey? However it was the Victorians who fully explored the county’s artistic potential. The Pre-Raphaelites, Redgrave, Cole, Foster, Allingham, Hook, Lawson and Watts are just some of the painters who depicted our varied landscapes and picturesque cottages.

Operation Morse! Free Event

Saturday 11th April, 11am-2pm, Godalming Museum

Help us celebrate Jack Phillips’ birthday! We will have a special event station licensed to use the Titanic’s callsign GB2MGY and an amateur radio special event station demonstrating worldwide communications. Learn Morse code and send a message to get a Certificate. Try your hand at a fun Morse code computer game. Meet young radio amateurs and learn how you can get a license too.